Biographies

Second edition. Celebrating its 100th anniversary, this series cprovides its readers with detailed insight into the lives and work of music's geniuses. Unlike other composer biographies that focus narrowly on the music, this series explores the personal history of each composer and the social context surrounding the music. In a precise, engaging, and authoritative manner, each volume combines a vivid portrait of the master musicians' inspirations, influences, life experiences, even their weaknesses, with an accessible discussion of their work-all in roughly 300 pages. Further, each volume offers superb reference material, including a detailed life and times chronology, a complete list of works, a personalia glossary highlighting the important people in the composer's life, and a select bibliography. Under the supervision of music expert and series general editor Stanley Sadie, Master Musicians will certainly proceed to delight music scholars, serious musicians, and all music lovers for another hundred years.

This book explores the three aspects of Rachmaninoff - composer, pianist, conductor, with particular emphasis on the composer. His works are discussed in detail with musical examples. An appendix with discography is included, as well as a listing of works conducted and concerts given.

Includes a short biography, a list of works and performances, publishers, a complete discography, and a detailed bibliography, with appendices containing a chronological listing of Reger's works as well as a listing of works by genre.

Long considered the definitive biography in English, this book takes great pains to dispel misconceptions about the enigmatic composer, whose natural talents may have rivaled that of Mozart and Mendelssohn, and whose music sparkles with a wit, spontaneity and brilliance found in the work of few others.